As jarring as the image might be in the frame of traditional diplomacy, it actually makes sense given the audience of one at which the trailer is aimed. The North Korean autocrat is known to be a fan of Western pop culture, and the Rocky series specifically.

In a 2017 interview, basketball star Dennis Rodman said that Kim had a “13-piece girls band with violins” playing classic rock by Jimi Hendrix and The Doors. “When I first went, the live band only played two songs for four hours: the theme songs from Rocky and Dallas,” he said.

In 2012, the Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper, reported that a 100-minute program on North Korean Central TV included around three minutes’ worth of scenes from Rocky IV while a group of 10 female instrumentalists played “Gonna Fly Now” from the movie’s soundtrack.

The four-minute film that Trump showed Tuesday also featured stock footage of a dunking basketball player, another Kim obsession.

As unusual as the video was, it may have worked. Kim remarked about the day’s events through a translator that “any people in the world that will think of this as a scene from a … science fiction movie.”

Trump was also a fan.

“We had it made up. I showed it to him today, actually during the meeting, toward the end of the meeting and I think he loved it,” he said during a news conference.